We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each

experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face...

we must do that which we think we cannot.

: o ) Eleanor Roosevelt

Free yourself from fear and doubt. The biggest thing we have to fear is fear itself. Another great quote. But in reality very true in every aspect. Walk with your head high, your eyes wide open, your chest back. It is all about the confidence you walk with and think with.

Lets define Confidence:

Noun:

The feeling or belief that one can rely on someone or something; firm trust: "we had every confidence in the staff".

The state of feeling certain about the truth of something.

Being certain about you and your abilities to do what is correct and true.

Being certain in your beliefs and values.

Being certain in your knowledge about the subject your working with.

Don't have the knowledge? Break it down and study what you want to know become a mini expert with certain aspects and give it your all to learn and become proficient.

Find a coach or a mentor in what your trying to achieve and learn from them and proceed with the confidence that your learning from the best.

Take the first step and think and act as if ...... Believe in what and who you are and what can be and walk on. Walk on with a smile, with belief and with confidence.

Enjoy your week, share a smile, share in some laughter and dream big and love always : ) Smiles to you this day and everyday

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On this day in history

1567 – An explosion destroys the Kirk o' Field house in Edinburgh, Scotland. The second husband of Mary, Queen of Scots, Lord Darnley is found strangled, in what many believe to be an assassination.

1862 – American Civil War: A Union naval flotilla destroys the bulk of the Confederate Mosquito Fleet in the Battle of Elizabeth City on the Pasquotank River in North Carolina.

1863 – The fire extinguisher is patented.

1870 – The YWCA is founded in New York City.

1906 – HMS Dreadnought is launched.

1920 – Jozef Haller de Hallenburg performs symbolic wedding of Poland to the sea, celebrating restitution of Polish access to open sea.

1923 – Texas Tech University is founded as Texas Technological College in Lubbock, Texas.

1933 – The New York City-based Postal Telegraph Company introduces the first singing telegram.

1933 – In round 13 of a boxing match at New York City's Madison Square Garden, Primo Carnera knocks out Ernie Schaaf, killing him.

1940 – The Soviet Union begins mass deportations of Polish citizens from occupied eastern Poland to Siberia.

1942 – Japanese submarine bombards Midway Atoll.

1943 – World War II: Attempting to completely lift the Siege of Leningrad, the Soviet Red Army engages German troops and Spanish volunteers in the Battle of Krasny Bor.

1947 – Italy cedes most of Venezia Giulia to Yugoslavia.

1954 – President Dwight Eisenhower warns against United States intervention in Vietnam.

1962 – Captured American U2 spy-plane pilot Gary Powers is exchanged for captured Soviet spy Rudolf Abel.

1964 – Melbourne-Voyager collision: The aircraft carrier HMAS Melbourne collides with the destroyer HMAS Voyager off the south coast of New South Wales, Australia.

1967 – The 25th Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified.

1981 – A fire at the Las Vegas Hilton hotel-casino kills eight and injures 198.

1989 – Ron Brown is elected chairman of the Democratic National Committee becoming the first African American to lead a major American political party.

1996 – The IBM supercomputer Deep Blue defeats Garry Kasparov for the first time.

1998 – Voters in Maine repeal a gay rights law passed in 1997 becoming the first U.S. state to abandon such a law.

2003 – France and Belgium break the NATO procedure of silent approval concerning the timing of protective measures for Turkey in case of a possible war with Iraq.

2005 – North Korea announces that it possesses nuclear weapons.

2009 – The communication satellites Iridium 33 and Kosmos-2251 collide in orbit, destroying both.

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Pizza Casserole

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Your Daily Prayer

Lord, thank you for today and all the possibilities that lay in front of me

Thank you for this year and another day of life and a chance to make a difference

Thank you for the gift of family, of love, of understanding.

Thank you for the gift of gratitude may I use it and speak it daily to inspire others to do the same

Bless our families, our friends, those in need of hope and faith may be in some way help to inspire their lives.

Help them to construct a plan for a path of increased gratitude, enhanced desire to create a environment of more laughter and smiles.

May we have the insight to understand that we are in charge of our product that we produce

Help all us to understand that we create our results, our thoughts, our actions that make all the difference.

May we also understand the power of gratitude and prayer with meditation regarding all of our emotions no matter how large or small

We have the ownership of the thoughts and actions and may we realize that strengths that we do possess that can make the most difference in the lives of others.

May I choose to make a difference in the lives of myself and others.

May I share a smile, a sincere smile and perhaps a kind word or deed.

May I give thanks more.

Show appreciation more.

To share to be that beacon of light.

To share a simple sincere smile.

Help me to understand that a balanced emotional status and let me always produce and perform at a more positive state.

With humility and gratitude I thank you

Today I will enjoy what gifts and blessings have been given to me.

Today I will share my gifts with others.

Amen

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